car homeserrorsincidentsMedicines-related incidents are a leading cause of preventable harm across all patient groups, including care home residents. Despite national guidance, there is little information on as
Prescribing medication is a fundamental but risky part of healthcare, with high potential for error. Approximately 50% of hospital inpatients were exposed to at least one prescription error during their stay.1Medication errors are common in hospitals and other healthcare settings and threaten patient...
Despite the large number of elderly patients in nursing homes and the intensity of medication use there, few current data are available on patterns of medication use in this setting. We studied all medication use among 850 residents of 12 representative intermediate-care facilities in Massachusetts....
Medication errors are among the most common medical errors and cause significant morbidity and in some cases mortality. The objective of this article is to review the literature on medication errors in psychiatry. We completed a comprehensive search of both peer- and non-peer-reviewed articles that...
Patients at psychiatric homes are a vulnerable group with several factors complicating their pharmacological treatment. Psychiatric patients in stable treatment are transferred from specialist care to primary care, which presents new challenges as general practitioners (GPs) may feel that they are not suff...
Further research is needed to examine the burden of medication errors, preventable ADEs and ADEs post-hospital discharge in all populations, in particular paediatric populations. 1Introduction Transitions of care can be defined as “changes in the level, location, or providers of care as patients mo...
Similarly, the ability to limit access to medications using locking features may be essential for patients with cognitive impairments to limit overadherence or in homes where children may be cared for. Reminders and alarm functions are important features of SMAPs that can help improve medication ...
Aging Clinical and Experimental Research (2024) 36:63 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40520-023-02679-2 POSITION PAPER Medication review and deprescribing in different healthcare settings: a position statement from an Italian scientific consortium Massimo Carollo1 · Virginia Boccardi...
A consensus guideline for antipsychotic drug use for dementia in care homes. Bridging the gap between scientific evidence and clinical practice. Int Psycho- geriatr. 2015;27:1849–59. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610215000745. 2. Christian R, Saavedra L, Gaynes BN, Sheitman B, Wines RCM, ...
Self-reported measures of self-medication may be prone to recall errors. More robust methods of assessing self-medication would involve assessment as self-medication was occurring, rather than asking about it after the fact. However, given its high prevalence in substance use and anxiety disorders,...